Elizabeth Warren's whereabouts

5/22/12 4:48 PM EDT

As if the Cherokee heritage flap wasn’t nettlesome enough to Elizabeth Warren, today brings this headache-inducing story from GoLocalWorcester.com: “Elizabeth Warren MIA in Central Mass.”

While the candidate-has-been-absent-from-this-region genre is a staple of campaign coverage, the small towns and blue collar suburbs of central Massachusetts, outside I-495, are an important battleground in a race where Warren is expected to run up the score in Boston and its nearby suburbs and Scott Brown needs to perform well elsewhere, such as the North and South shores and in the central part of the state.